NAD Urges FCC and Industry to Protect VRS
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) recently learned that individuals across the United States were arrested for conspiring to defraud the Video Relay Service (VRS) program, administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The NAD is disappointed by these serious and significant allegations. VRS is a critical service that gives deaf and hard of hearing people the ability to communicate in American Sign Language with hearing people over the telephone network.
Marlee Matlin Rocks for the NAD on Capitol Hill and at the FCC
Marlee Matlin, Academy Award winning actress, author, and spokesperson for the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) for accessible broadband services and Internet media, rocked for access on Capitol Hill last week and testified at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) field hearing on the National Broadband Plan.
Relay Consumer Alert: 800 Numbers No Longer Interoperable
The NAD has learned that a major Video Relay Service (VRS) provider removed all toll-free 800 numbers from the relay service number database to comply with a recent Public Notice issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). As a result of the FCC decision, people who use videophones provided by VRS providers cannot call other people whose 800 numbers/videophones are supported by this major VRS provider.
